"It's now that counts": the South in Hollywood's Sixties films / Oliver Gruner --
History without a capital H: violence, commodification, and the perpetuation of the postmodern condition in Django unchained / Daniel Farrell --
You're not the South: The outlaw Josey Wales, Ride with the devil, and confederate guerrillas in modern films / Bryan M. Jack --
Reconstruction on film: Free state of Jones and the historical memory of Reconstruction / Erik B. Alexander --
From Griffith to Parker: the representation of African Americans and the U.S. South in The birth of a nation 1915-2016 / Caroline Schroeter --
Roots reimagined / Todd Simpson --
The South as a space/place of reclamation of black fe/male inheritance / Kwakiutl Dreher --
Hollywood's southern strategy: portraying white Christianity in late twentieth-century civil rights melodramas / Megan Hunt --
Lesbian invisibility continued: the "straight-washing" of southern women in The color purple and Fried green tomatoes / Gene Kelly --
Intergenerational struggle and racial progress in The help and The butler / Tatiana Prorokova.
